Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States and kills more than 400,000 Americans every year. This is more than deaths caused from alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined!

MANILA (UPDATE) - President Rodrigo Duterte has signed an executive order banning smoking in public places nationwide, officials confirmed Thursday.
Speaking to ABS-CBN News, Health Secretary Paulyn Ubial said Duterte signed the executive order last May 16. Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and

TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo risks being one of the unhealthiest Olympic Games hosts in years, as an anti-smoking law exposes deep rifts over tobacco tax revenue, personal freedom and the dangers of passive smoking, which kills thousands of Japanese each year.

NEW DELHI: In a first in the country, the Delhi State Election Commission has declared all the 13,234 polling booths 'tobacco free' ahead of the MCD polls, to be held on this Sunday. The move comes after Delhi government's Health Department approached the State Election Commissioner urging him to declare all the polling

The harmful effects of tobacco on foetuses have been known for decades, yet 15 percent of pregnant women in Finland still smoke. Numbers of pregnant smokers in other Nordic countries have been falling in recent years, but the percentage has remained stagnant in Finland.

Junk food consumption coupled with sedentary lifestyle is triggering a host of ailments in people all across the world. Smoking and tobacco consumption is another factor to push the number of premature deaths up. Statistics estimate close to 6 million premature deaths triggered due to tobacco consumption across the world.

Smoking harms almost every organ of your body and causes 87% of lung cancer deaths. Smoking tobacco is amongst the leading causes of many other diseases such as heart attack, COPD, erectile dysfunction, and birth defects. It has become a most popular form of drug abuse. Smoking is dated as early as 500 BC, and today,

Geneva: The global total annual number of deaths linked to tobacco consumption will increase from the current six million to eight million by 2030, according to a study by the World Health Organisation and the US National Cancer Institute.

A ban on smoking in public places came into effect across India eight years ago -- but India still remains home to 12 per cent of the worlds smokers and they with their second-hand smoke pose a threat to those who don't smoke.

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